Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 1:34
I saw it — That is, the Spirit so descending and abiding on him. And testified — From that time.
I saw it — That is, the Spirit so descending and abiding on him. And testified — From that time.
JOHN 1:34 o` ui`o,j {B} Instead of “the Son of God” several witnesses, chiefly Western (codex Bezae is defective here), read “the chosen one of God” (î5vid a* itb, e, ff2* syrc, s Ambrose) and a few...
THE SAME SAID ... - This was the sign by which he was to know the Messiah. He was to see the Spirit descending like a dove and abiding on him. It does not follow, however, that he had no intimation be...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. The Only-begotten, the Eternal Word; His Glory and His Manifestation -- Chapter 1:1-2:22 CHAPTER 1 __ 1. The Word: the Creator, the Life and the Light. (John 1:1 .)...
THE BAPTISTS WITNESS TO HIMSELF. The baptism of Jesus has apparently taken place. John points to Him as the greater one of whom he had spoken. His own work of baptism, which has not been described but...
AND. SAW AND BARE RECORD THAT THIS IS THE SON OF GOD. While the apostle does not give the history of the Savior's baptism, his allusions to it are very full and can only be understood by comparing the...
THE WORD (John 1:1-18)...
So John bore his witness. "With my own eyes, he said, "I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven, as it might have been a dove, and the Spirit remained upon him. And I did not know him. But it was he w...
I SAW. I have seen. Greek. _horao._ App-133. BARE RECORD. have borne witness. THE SON OF GOD. App-98....
_And I saw, and bare record_ Better, _And I_ HAVE SEEN _and_ HAVE BORNE WITNESS. -I have seen" is in joyous contrast to -I knew Him not," John 1:31_; John 1:33_. -Have borne witness" is the same verb...
The Testimony of the Baptist 19 28. His Testimony to the Deputation from Jerusalem This section describes a crisis in the Baptist's ministry. He had already attracted the attention of the Sanhedrin....
ἙΏΡΑΚΑ. I HAVE SEEN, in joyous contrast to ‘I knew Him not,’ John 1:31; John 1:33. See on John 1:18. The perfects indicate that the results of the seeing and of the testimony remain: comp....
THE TESTIMONY OF THE BAPTIST TO THE PEOPLE...
19–37. _The Testimony of the Baptist_, (α) to the deputation from Jerusalem, (β) to the people, (γ) to Andrew and John, John 1:31-51. _The Testimony of the Disciples:_ John 2:1-11 _The Testimony of th...
VER 32. AND JOHN BORE RECORD, SAYING, I SAW THE SPIRIT DESCENDING FROM HEAVEN LIKE A DOVE, AND IT ABODE UPON HIM. 33. AND I KNEW HIM NOT: BUT HE THAT SENT ME TO BAPTIZE WITH WATER, THE SAME SAID UNTO...
_THE ETERNAL WORD WAS LIFTED UP BY JOHN -- (JOHN 1:19-34)_ John was a witness who lifted up God's Eternal Word. (John 1:19-28) John the Baptist was "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make str...
ΈΏΡΑΚΑ _perf. ind. act., см._ John 1:18. ΜΕΜΑΡΤΎΡΗΚΑPERF. _ind. act., см._ John 1:32. _Perf._ подчеркивает, что его свидетельство продолжалось до момента разговора (Bernard)....
THE BAPTISTS EVIDENCE FOR THE LAMB OF GOD _Text 1:29-34_ 29 On the morrow he seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold, the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world! 30 This is he...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 1:19-34 Following our usual custom, we begin by submitting an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us. In it we have:— 1. The Jews’ inquiry of John, a...
And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God. AND I SAW [OR 'HAVE SEEN' - heooraka (G3708 )] THAT THIS IS THE SON OF GOD. There is some appearance of inconsistency between the First and t...
Government and education are still the panaceas proposed by the majority of priest-craft. But John wisely withdraws himself from their notice, and as the Voice, heralds the coming of the Messiah Himse...
THE DIVINITY AND INCARNATION OF THE WORD. WITNESS OF JOHN. THE FIRST DISCIPLES 1-18. Preface, declaring (1) that the Word was God, (2) that He was made man, (3) that He revealed the Father. This subl...
THE SON OF GOD] The chief difficulty as to the use of this term by the Baptist is removed by the statement that he first learnt that Jesus was 'the Son of God' at the Baptism. In the OT. it was a titl...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ THE AUTHOR Most people agree that John, Jesus’ *disciple, wrote the 4th *Gospel. John’s father was called Zebedee. And John had...
AND I SAW AND BARE RECORD. — Better, _and I have seen and have borne witness,_ as in John 1:32. The result of personal conviction was, that he forthwith testified to others, and continued to do so unt...
John 1:15 CHAPTER 3 THE BAPTIST'S TESTIMONY. “There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for witness, that he might bear witness of the light, that all might believe throug...
κἀγὼ ἑώρακα … ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ. “And I have seen and have testified that this is the Son of God.” The Synoptists tell us that a voice was heard at the baptism declaring “this is my beloved Son”; and in...
_The witness of John based on the sign at the baptism of Jesus_....
_The witness of John and its result_....
WITNESS BORNE TO THE SON OF GOD John 1:29-34 John's description of Christ gave answer to Isaac's inquiry, Genesis 22:7. Let us not narrow the extent of the gospel. By the grace of God Jesus tasted de...
The Gospel of John brings us into the profoundest facts concerning the Person of Jesus. The first eighteen verses constitute the introduction to the whole Book. The main declaration is found by bringi...
And I saw, and bare record that this is (r) the Son of God. (r) This word "the" points out to us some excellent thing, and makes a distinction between Christ and others, whom Moses and the prophets c...
TESTIMONY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST John 1:6-51. _“There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, that he may testify concerning the Light, in order that all may believe th...
II. SECOND TESTIMONY: VV. 29-34. How can we comprehend the fact that the deputies of the Sanhedrim left John without asking him who the person was of whom he intended to speak? Either they did not car...
FIRST SECTION: 1:19-37. THE TESTIMONIES OF JOHN THE BAPTIST. These testimonies are three in number and were given on three successive days (see John 1:29; John 1:35, “ _the next day_).” These three da...
VER. 34. “ _And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God._ ” The ἐγώ, _I_, in κἀγώ, distinguishes, as in John 1:31; John 1:33, him who alone was to _see_, and who _also_ (καί) ha...
This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me. (31) And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizi...
The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point...
34._I saw and testified. _He means that what he declares is not doubtful; because God was pleased to make him fully and thoroughly acquainted with those things of which he was to be the witness to the...
The first chapter asserts what He was before all things, and the different characters in which He is a blessing to man, being made flesh. He is, and He is the expression of, the whole mind that subsis...
AND I SAW,.... The Spirit descending from heaven as a dove, and lighting upon Jesus, and remaining some time on him; this he saw with his bodily eyes: AND BORE RECORD; at the same time, before all th...
And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God. Ver. 34. _Aud I saw and bare record_] They that would persuade others, must be strongly persuaded themselves ("We believed, therefore have we s...
_This is he_, &c. I now point out to you the very person of whom I formerly said, _After me cometh a man which is preferred before me_ Being incomparably greater and more excellent than I; _for he was...
BARE RECORD; ver John 1:19-23; MATTHEW 3:17....
John points to the Lamb of God:...
AND I SAW, AND BARE RECORD THAT THIS IS THE SON OF GOD. The very next day after the embassy of the Sanhedrin had been with John, he saw Jesus coming toward him. This incident probably took place after...
CHRIST THE LIVING WORD (vs.1-5) Revelation 19:13, speaking of the Lord Jesus, says, "His name is called the Word of God." As such He had no beginning: in the beginning He was there. In person He is...
29-36 John saw Jesus coming to him, and pointed him out as the Lamb of God. The paschal lamb, in the shedding and sprinkling of its blood, the roasting and eating of its flesh, and all the other circ...
But when I saw that, I could not but believe, and also bear an open testimony to the world, that this man was not mere man, but the eternal Son of that God, who sent me to baptize with water; reservin...
John 1:34 I G2504 seen G3708 (G5758) and G2532 testified G3140 (G5758) that G3754 this G3778 is...
“And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God.” What he has seen now enables him to bear witness that ‘this is the Son of God'. It is possible that the Baptiser did not realise t...
JOHN THE BAPTISER'S TESTIMONY TO JESUS AND THE CALLING OF DISCIPLES (JOHN 1:19). The portrayal of John the Baptiser by the writer is in interesting contrast to the John the Baptiser portrayed in the o...
We enter here upon the second great division of the Gospel, extending from John 1:19 to John 2:11, and containing the presentation of Jesus, as He takes His place in the field of human history and, al...
John 1:34. AND I HAVE SEEN, AND HAVE BORNE WITNESS THAT THIS IS THE SON OF GOD. ‘ I _have_ seen,' for the result of the seeing abides unchanged and ever present: ‘I _have_ borne witness, for the Bapti...
I HAVE SEEN (εωρακα). Present perfect active of οραω. John repeats the statement of verse John 1:32 (τεθεαμα).HAVE BORNE WITNESS (μεμαρτυρηκα). Perfect active indicative of μαρτυρεω for which ver...
John 1:19 The Ministry of John the Baptist. From the ministry of John the Baptist we may learn I. That when Jesus is about to visit a community in His saving power, His coming is generally preceded...
John 1:29. _The next day_ This chapter is a record of the events that occurred on different days. Sometimes God does great things in a single day; one extraordinary day may have more in it than a hun...
May the Holy Spirit, who inspired these words, inspire us through them as we read them! John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word._ The divine Logos, whom we know as the Christ of God. «In the beginn...
John is the majestic Evangelist; he is the high-soaring eagle with the piercing eye. His is the Gospel of the Son of God. John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the...
John 1:15. _John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me._ He was not before John in the order of hum...
John 1:19. _And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou ? And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ._ «I...
John 1:29. _The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of god, which taketh away the sin of the world._ John lost no time. He had no sooner discovered the Saviour than...
CONTENTS: Deity of Christ. Ministry of John the Baptist. Jesus announced as the Lamb of God, and the first converts to Him. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, John the Baptist, Moses, Elias, Isaiah, Pharisees,...
John 1:1. _In the beginning was the Word._ Εν αρχη ο λογος. John begins the new creation with the words of Moses of the old creation, and continues to speak of Christ in the running language of all th...
32-34. I SAW THE SPIRIT COME DOWN LIKE A DOVE. John declares what he saw with his own eyes! See notes on Matthew 3:16. God had told John what the _sign_ would be to identify the Messiah. John says tha...
_This is He._ THE REDEEMER’S IDENTIFICATION I. IN HIS WORK as the Lamb of God. 1. ‘The object offered in sacrifice. The Lamb of God applies to Christ (1) in His personal character. (2) In His sac...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 1:32 The Spirit did not merely DESCEND on Jesus. He REMAINED ON HIM, which was a sign of Jesus’ divine anointing as Messiah ...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 1:19 Signs of the Messiah, with Teaching about Life in Him. The first half of John’s Gospel features Jesus’ demonstration of his messianic identity through several selected “signs” ...
THE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, ACCORDING TO JOHN. T HIS is the title in the Greek and Latin codices. In the Syriac it is as follows, _The Holy Gospel, the Preaching of Jouchanon_ (John), _which...
_ Was made_ : not that the Word was changed into flesh, or flesh into the Word, for, as S. Chrysostom says, "far from that immortal nature is transmutation." For how could flesh become God, that is, h...
PART II. (A.) Chapter S John 1:19 to John 4:54 I. THE MANIFESTATION OF THE WORD AS LIGHT AMONG THOSE PREPARED TO RECEIVE HIM (John 1:19) 1. The testimony of John the Baptist: (1) he is not the Chri...
EXPOSITION THE title of the book is differently given in the manuscripts and ancient versions, and the differences are so considerable that they cannot be referred to the original text. The simplest f...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to the gospel according to John. The gospel of John was the last of the gospels that were written. It was written towards the close of that first century, written by John,...
1 John 2:23; 1 John 3:8; 1 John 4:14; 1 John 4:15; 1 John 4:9;...